Master agent TBI believes SD-WAN presents one of the biggest opportunities for channel partners today, and is helping its agent partners understand the "nitty gritty" of the latest solutions this week at its partner event in Chicago.

Telecom industry veteran and current CEO of TPx Communications Richard Jalkut discusses the confusion around incumbent carriers' growth strategies, the need for partners to move to managed services, and getting more VARs into the telecom services business.

From gobbling up more fiber and sinking large investments into their networks to ready themselves for 5G, to executive moves, CRN rounds up six newsworthy items that happened in the telecom industry last month that solution providers should know about.

PlanetOne's new Director of Solution Sales, Southern California Region, Kristen Cunningham, shared her partner recruitment goals, and the opportunities for partners selling the full solution, including cloud, security and SD-WAN.

Field Engineer, a new global, on-demand offering for service providers, VARs, MSPs and SIs can connect partners and providers with experienced telecom professionals in minutes to speed time to deployment for voice, networking, cloud and SD-WAN services.

Keerti Melkote spoke with CRN about the company's new switch that takes on Cisco at the network core, the company's new asset tracking solution and the architectural differences between Cisco and Aruba.

A little more than a year after CenturyLink closes its acquisition of Level 3, CenturyLink CEO Glen Post will step down making way for current Level 3 CEO Jeff Storey takes over as CEO of the new CenturyLink.

Cisco, Aruba Networks and Ruckus Wireless are just some of the vendors who sold the most access point devices through distribution in the first quarter of 2017. Find out who took home the most unit share.

The telecom industry has been busy with M&A activity in recent years. CRN rounded up the biggest acquisitions that have been shaking up the carrier landscape, including a few monster deals that didn't pan out.

RapidScale co-founder and CEO Randy Jeter shared how the cloud service provider is attracting stronger talent and benefiting partners by paying more attention to its workplace, amenities and company culture.